This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to Episode 90 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode, we're going to look at nine different ways professional development is getting so much better.

I literally can't even wrap my head around all this stuff.

It is Sunday, March 4th, almost noon and I have been organizing and rearranging these ideas for days now.

I have to get the podcast out so I just had to cut myself off.

Just a few days ago, I popped onto Twitter and I asked people to share their ideas for alternative

PD structures. Holy cow. As I put this together, the responses are still trickling in.

I started down this path thinking that lots of districts were still stuck in a one-size-fits-all,

sit-and-get, whole-school PD model, where the entire staff is hurted into one room to listen to one

expert talk. I have been the person on that stage and even in the best of circumstances,

I still get that uncomfortable feeling when I look out over the crowd and see the folded arms,

the faces turn down to screens, the bouncing board feet. It sucks to be the presenter in those

situations. But evidently, that model is disappearing because person after person told me about all the

innovative ways their schools and districts are reinventing professional learning for teachers.

I've done my best to curate a good list of those ideas here, but honestly, it was like trying

to drink from a fire hose. After a while, I just told myself I was going to have to stop collecting

and just get the big ideas out there. If you really want to do a deep dive on any one of these,

go to that Twitter thread and I'm going to provide a link on my website and follow up with some of

the people who share their practices. So what I have for you today is a list of nine alternative

models for teacher-professional learning. All of these are being tried in different schools,

some informally, and some really in a well-developed way. Many schools are using a combination of them.

It's just incredible. It's a feast really. I'm so excited and encouraged to see so many schools

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